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my boss became a citizen

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Class, Labor Struggles, Nation State, Obama administration, Political Economy, Racialization

my boss became a citizen recently — though his wife, a doctor, didn’t. I didn’t want to pry but I wondered, why? I was guessing pressure at work. Dunno. Meanwhile, Yates has a post up about immigration:
President Obama has decided not to nominate immigrant-rights advocate and attorney, Thomas Saenz, to head the Civil Rights division […]


god damned piece of shit mutherfookin lazy ass

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

there’s this guy on lbo who spend 99% of the time pulling stuff out of his ass and flinging it around so everyone else can enjoy the stench. which is to say, he’s almost always writing from the cuff, asking questions that would have been answered had he actually bothered to read the post or […]


moral entrepreneurialism and fundamentalist feminism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins, Third World Feminism

while this is out of order, I couldn’t resist writing a bit about Agustin’s ethnographically thick description of attending a conference on prostitution, one led by what we typically call abolitionists — activists who are opposed to prostitution and want to abolish it.
Agustin calls them moral entrepreneurs, which tickled me because it’s an old term […]


sex on the margins is a must-read

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex at the Margins

if you have any interest at all in sex work, sex positive feminism, migrants, migrant workers, the prostitution wars then you really must read Laura Maria Augstin’s _Sex on the Margins_. I’ve mentioned her work before, quoting her articles and blog, and posting an interview with her on Doug Henwood’s radio program, Behind the News.
I […]


revolting load of horse shit, obama-style

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 27th, 2009 • Category: Democrats, Iraq war, Nation State, Obama, Politics

yeah, revolutionary gardening ought to fix this! via Lou Proyect:

Now, before I go any further, I want to take a moment to speak directly to the people of Iraq.
You are a great nation, rooted in the cradle of civilization. You are joined together by enduring accomplishments, and a history that connects you […]


bombing civilians. the obama administration’s future?

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 31st, 2009 • Category: Nation State, Obama administration, Politics

Moyers reports on the history of aerial bombing, including an address to the recent civilian deaths when Obama launched an aerial attack in Pakistan as well as an address to what could happen if Obama keeps his promise to ramp up attacks in Afghanistan:
Moyers with Marilyn Young on her book, Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century […]


de-victimizing migrants

By shag carpet bomb • Aug 18th, 2008 • Category: Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work

an awesome interview with Laura D’Agustin, who also has a new blog, where I found this interview. the rest of it is about the panic that surrounds sex work, border crossing, and the rescue industry:
Most people do not arrive penniless, they arrive with their own or borrowed money, even if the amounts don’t seem large […]


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